{"id":4443,"date":"2013-05-30T03:26:10","date_gmt":"2013-05-30T03:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disnaija.com\/nigeria-news\/fashola-lekki-ikoyi-bridge-will-be-tolled\/"},"modified":"2013-05-30T03:26:10","modified_gmt":"2013-05-30T03:26:10","slug":"fashola-lekki-ikoyi-bridge-will-be-tolled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/fashola-lekki-ikoyi-bridge-will-be-tolled\/","title":{"rendered":"Fashola: Lekki-Ikoyi bridge will be tolled"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State today commissioned the Lekki-Ikoyi link Bridge built at a cost of N29 billion. The bridge is the first suspension bridge in Africa.<\/p>\n The bridge was planned and designed by Julius Berger engineers in Germany and Nigeria, with additional technical support from Engineering and Service Group Bilfinger.<\/p>\n Witnessing the commissioning of the bridge are the first Governor of Lagos State, Brigadier-General Mobolaji Johnson (Rtd); first civilian governor of Lagos, Alhaji Lateef Jakande; Oba of Lagos, Rilwan Akiolu; former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Yayale Ahmed, among others.<\/p>\n Fashola announced that the bridge would be tolled and reeled out the cost per vehicles, saying that salon cars would pay N250; mini-vans, SUVs and light pick-up trucks, N300; non-commercial buses with maximum seating capacity of 26 persons, N400 and motorcycles, with 200cc capacity and above, N100.<\/p>\n \u201cIn addition, there is restriction on certain types of vehicles. For the avoidance of doubt, the following types of vehicles are prohibited from using this bridge, namely: commercial motorcycles, tricycles, commercial buses, including danfos and high capacity buses and heavy duty trucks, articulated trucks, lorries and such other categories,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n The governor said in order to ensure that the full savings in journey time was experienced by commuters, the government is racing to conclude the reconstruction of Glover Road later in the year to provide another choice of access to commuters who chose to use the bridge, adding that the bridge would fully be opened for use from 1 June, 2013.<\/p>\n Fashola said he expected that from now on, residents of Lekki who had no business in Victoria Island, would not need to go on to Ozumba Mbadiwe in order to cross to the Mainland, saying that \u201cin the event they do, it will not be because they have no alternatives, it will be because they made a choice. <\/p>\n
Kazeem Ugbodaga<\/strong><\/p>\n